MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 25, 1947

¶ In Cleveland, five of the nation's 67 surviving G.A.R. veterans
turned up at their 81st annual encampment, elected one of their younger
members, 102-year-old Robert W. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y., as commander in
chief, prepared to look around for next year's camp site. EURJ In
Alaska, after a look at Fairbanks' ili-famed row of brothels known as
"the line," Dr. W. T. Harrison, a district director of the U.S. Public
Health Service, said: "I did not think there was any place under the
American flag where prostitution is as flagrant."